thank you. this really sums it very nicely. it was obvious to me from the start that moxie's intent wasn't to have a genuine discussion but to confuse and obfuscate by focusing on individual little bits of what i'd written. the end result being just a big hopeless mess of confusion and going off on tangents. it is my fault, though, for playing into his game. i guess i found it amusing for a little while, but it was/is certainly a waste of time.What point are you trying to make Moxie? Overall I see you attacking individual pieces of PG's argument but in accord with PG's main thesis that blacks commit more crimes per capita, which is clearly the case.
i realize that looking at race critically/honestly is perhaps the biggest taboo in our society today. believe me, i certainly didn't expect many people or anyone, really, to agree with me. the schools (from kindergarten to the highest levels of college,) television, the media in general teach us that this just isn't something you're allowed to talk about and remain a part of society. you can do just about anything else and eventually be forgiven/accepted, but not this. so, part of my motivation for was curiousity about how people would react and the thrill of expressing "illegal" ideas.
and, no, i didn't support ever word i wrote with complete documentation. this isn't a dissertation and i honestly don't care about convincing people if they don't want to be convinced. if you are interested in the topic, look into it yourself.
to talk about race in any mainstream context you have to go in with the unshakable assumption that any observed differences between the races must be the result of anything other than race. if the data doesn't fit this assumption, then the data must be wrong. well, with one qualification...it's allright to say there are inherent race differences if they say something positive about non-whites. for example, that blacks have higher than average athletic ability (which i'm sure is probably true.)
the opposite, however, to say that some non-white race has some negative inherent quality (for example, that blacks are inherently more criminal/violent), is emphatically not allowed to even be discussed. this just seem so dishonest and anti-intellectual, anti-knowledge. how can lying to ourselves really be a good idea in the long run?